Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26

90 overheard" How well that boy
was protected! l care not how grea
the height or how vast the depth, with
Christ within us. land Christ beneath
us, and Christ above us, and Christ all
around us. nothing shall befall us in
the way of harm. Christ himself, hay
ING been in the tempest, will deliver all
those who put their trust in him.
Blessed be His glorious name forever.
The third installment paid for our
redemption was the Saviour's sham
trial. | call it "A sham trial-there has
never been anything SO indecent or un-
fair in the Tombs court of New York
as was witnessed ut the trial Of Christ.
Why. they hustled Him into the court
roorn At two o'clock in the morning.
11,ry gr,n iIim no time for counsel.
4.lcJ gave Him no opportunity foI
s%ubpoening witnesses. The %rutfians
who were wandering around through
the midnight, of course theyA saw the
! arrest and went into the court room.
But Jesus friends were sober men.
were respectable men, and at that hour,
two o'clock in the morning, of course
they were at home asleep. Conse-
qu3ntlv Christ entered the court room
with the rufsaDs.
Oh. look at Him! No one to speak
n word for Him. lift Il lantern until
| can look into His face, and as my hear,
beats IL sympathy for this. the best
friend the world ever had, Himself now
utterly friendless, an officer of the
court 20 ONE mp and smites Him
in the mouth, and ] see the blood steal.
ing from gum and lip. Oh, it was a
farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps
an hour, and then the judge rises for
the sentences! 1t is against the law to
GIVE SENTENCE unless there has been ar
adjournment of the court between on
demnation and sentence; but what
cares this Judge for the .awp The
man has no friends-let him die SAYS
the Judge, and the ruflians outside the
rail cry: AHA, aha, that's what we
want--iiis blood. Hand him out here
to us. Away with Him! Away with
Him. Oh, | bless God that amid all
the injustice that may be inflicted upon
us in this world we have "A divine sym
pathizer. The world cannot lie about
you o abuse YOU As much as they did
Christ. and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room, in every home, in every
store, and says: Courage, BY all
my hours of %maltreatment and abuse.
! will protect those who are trampled
on And when Christ forgets that
two O'Clock morning scene, and the
stroke of the rutlinn on the mouth and
The bowling Of the i,nwashuJ
crowd. then he will forget you and me
in the injustices of life that may be in
llicted upon us.
Some of you want deliverance from
your troubles. God knows you have
enough of them. Physical troubles.
domestic troubles; spiritual troubles,
financial troubles. You have been gath
ering them up, some perhaps for five. or
six, or seven years, and you have di-
vided them into two classes: Those vou
can talk about and those YOU cannot
talk about; and as those griefs are the
most grinding and depressing which
you cannot mention, you get condolenc,
for the things you can speak of, while
you get no coincidence for the things
that you cannot. In your school days
you learned how TO bound the state.
and could tell what rivers and lakes
and mountains ran through them. II
you were asked to-day to bound your
WORLDLY ESTATE, you would say it was
bounded on the north by trouble,
and on the south by trouble, and on
the east by trouble, and on the west by
trouble, while rivers of tears and lakes
of woe, and mountains of disaster run
through it. What are you going to dc
with your troubles? Why do you not
go to the theater and have your mind
absorbed in some tragedy '.Oh." YOU
say. .~'everything | have seen on the
boards of the stage is tame compared
with the tragedy of my own lifep'
Well, then. who do you not 90 TO youl
| trunks and closets and gather 10 al
the mementoes of your departed friend
and put them out OF sight, and take
down their pictures from the walls and
put in the frame II harvest scene. OIL
some bright and gay spectacle "Ah.'
you say, '.if l should remove all these
mementoes of nay Departed friends
that would not take away the killing
pictures that are hanging in the gallery
of my own heart" Well, if that does
not help you, why do you not plunge
into society, and try to wash
Off IN worldly gayesies al
of these ASSIGNMENTS of the
SOFA? ..Oh," you say. ~ have tried
that! but how can | hear other children
laugh when ray children are silent:
How can l see other happy families
when my w happy family is broken
up? Trouble. troubler' But do you
gain anything by broodiDg over your
misfortunes, by sitting down in a dark
room, by a comparison of the sweet
past with the bitter futnre? No; that
MAKES things worse Bnt ! have to
tell you to-day that NE Christ of all
sympathy presents Himself.
Is there anybody in this house that
can get along without sympathyP lido
not think | would live a day without it.
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